Alright, so (imo) surprisingly, Infamous released a (again, imo) good source.
At first, I thought it was a horrible thing, however after speaking to Korvacs and thinking about it, I changed my mind. This could be a perfect opportunity to gain interest in Conquer PServers.
Korvacs convinced me this could change the community. At this moment, we're all trying to 'fix' and 'rewrite' functions in existing sources. But with this release, we could focus on adding new content and extending servers. This means servers can focus on entertainment, instead of stability.
Another great thing about this release is that this is full of good code, in contrast to most public sources around (no, not all.). I personally remember learning a lot from CoEmu (5095 if I remember correctly), which was no where as good as this one (with all respect). This could learn newcomers, and those who are still interested in learning, great new techniques, at least it did for me.
However, how should the community handle this?
Should we start writing thousands of guides on how this works? Or should we focus on adding some things which were lost or damaged (afaik, the npc and item scripts are lost)? Should we make this 'up-to-date' or should we add missing features? Or are we all going to work on our own source of which 100's of them are released? I don't know what should nor what will happen. I can only hope 'good' coders will start releasing once again, writing guides etc. Please, do not release your own 'version' of this source, instead you should release whatever you add. At least imo.
Wall of text, I know, but after all I believe we should handle this correctly instead of making a big mess.
At first, I thought it was a horrible thing, however after speaking to Korvacs and thinking about it, I changed my mind. This could be a perfect opportunity to gain interest in Conquer PServers.
Korvacs convinced me this could change the community. At this moment, we're all trying to 'fix' and 'rewrite' functions in existing sources. But with this release, we could focus on adding new content and extending servers. This means servers can focus on entertainment, instead of stability.
Another great thing about this release is that this is full of good code, in contrast to most public sources around (no, not all.). I personally remember learning a lot from CoEmu (5095 if I remember correctly), which was no where as good as this one (with all respect). This could learn newcomers, and those who are still interested in learning, great new techniques, at least it did for me.
However, how should the community handle this?
Should we start writing thousands of guides on how this works? Or should we focus on adding some things which were lost or damaged (afaik, the npc and item scripts are lost)? Should we make this 'up-to-date' or should we add missing features? Or are we all going to work on our own source of which 100's of them are released? I don't know what should nor what will happen. I can only hope 'good' coders will start releasing once again, writing guides etc. Please, do not release your own 'version' of this source, instead you should release whatever you add. At least imo.
Wall of text, I know, but after all I believe we should handle this correctly instead of making a big mess.
